99--Indiana Dunes, National Lakeshore Wastewater Treatment Plant, Demolition Project, Portage, Indiana

THIS NOTICE WAS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED UNDER SOLICITATION NO. W912P6-05-B-0011. With this announcement, the Corps of Engineers-Chicago District issues a Pre-solicitation Notice for its Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Wastewater Treatment Plant Demolition Project; Site location: Portage, Indiana. The work will consist of removing all man-made items from the site except those, such as the sheet pile wall, which are used for erosion control and channel stabilization. The contractor will be responsible for removing and disposing of the entire treatment plant, steel and concrete building s, concrete tanks, pumps, process equipment, buried and above ground pipes, electrical equipment, asbestos containing materials, non-asbestos pipe insulation, vaults, outfall pipe and headwall, fencing, and miscellaneous metal debris will be removed from t he land and disposed of in a proper manner. The contractor will be responsible for any excavating after the demolition work is completed and backfilling with beach sand that will also include the site to be sprigged with native grasses. The contractor will also be responsible for the following: removal of a steel pipe bridge, which spans Burns Ditch to carry utility lines from the mill site to the treatment plant site, removal of the pipes and bridge and the removal of piers supporting the bridge. The Classification Code for this procurement is North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 238910. This procurement is UNRESTRICED TO BUSINESS SIZE. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a firm-fixed price services contract. The Invita tion for Bids will be downloadable from the INTERNET ONLY. The project specification files are Portable Document Format (PDF) files and can be viewed, navigated or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Interested Bidders can download the Invitation for Bid P ackage from the Internet Site https://www.fedteds.gov/fedteds/start.nsf/frm.vendorlogin?openform&SolicitationNumber=W912P6-06-B-0001. The solicitation will be available at the above-mentioned Internet site on or about 9 December 2005. The due date for bids will be on or about 10 January 2006 at 2:00 p.m. Chicago local time. Requests made by telephone, fax or email will not be honored.